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Twitterversed.

Like a lot of people I didn't really understand twitter at first. My pal Danese would talk about it or use it , and I admit I was at a loss. In my mind it was another blogging service only extremely very limited in the 140 character count. Living in the shadow of two large ridges I dont really have cell phone service at home and most of my texting experience consisted of texting friends while they were in music rehearsals or in studio so I could avoid disturbing them.

Maker Faire Roundup

Thanks to Ponoko Laser cutting service I won a free ticket to Maker Faire 2009! Ponoko has been operating exclusively out of New Zealand until very recently; they now have a stateside office in San Francisco where you can place orders for custom laser cutting done on a wide variety of materials. Maker Faire is the worlds largest DIY festival, in its fourth year now.

Its a Star Jellie

Sometimes ideas fall together quickly. several times the last week this one has made its way through my mind until all at once this morning I could see a whole system come to life.This last week or so I discovered the work of Homaro Cantu the food wizard who wants to feed the world.

Soft fences and wild places to play.

The world game-wise I would like to portray and celebrate and create is sort of mapped out in my head. It is a world based on the etoys theory of soft fences: you start out in a children's playground that is very rudimentary, very activity oriented and with a very low fence. This is the sort of physical playground I remember as a child growing up: it was a set of bars and rings and a sandbox with a scrap of pavement marked out for hop scotch and a numbers square game.

It had a low fence that you could look over into the next playground.

Everything is protovation.

Protovation is about being able to observe and detail the flaws in a system you yourself are in the process of creating. As an artist it means working in series, as a scientist it means taking a laboratory approach to breaking down a problem.

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QR code from Kaywa for cattavery.com

strategies part one

Its a mystery to me how to create my own generator, however the Kaywa QR-generator works fine for simple urls. It would be possible using this generator to create a scavenger hunt game simply using urls to specific flikr account images that contain visual clues and pointers to a next step.

The next step for real is another story.

The next step is a scavenger hunt linking water and information, or at least determining where the links need to be made.

A Superstructers view of H1N1

First off, its not really "swine" flu, so far no known recent swine cases. Its a novel version of H1N1 which was a very virulent strain of flu that affected mostly my grandparents generation around 1918. Although there will be many problems found in the industrial swine industry similar to recent discoveries of rampant filth in the peanut and pistachio industries, H1N1 has more to do with our ability to meet the basic hygiene needs of the worlds population, to provide a hand washing place as well as a point of waste elimination and site of clean water for drinking.

QR code generator and site scavenger hunt maker

Today I am struggling through making an on site QR code generator. I know that other people have done it, I have downloaded the drupal module mobile codes, and now i just need to figure it out. In theory once you can create your own QR codes you can also modify them to be logos as well as QR codes in various ways.

Murakami

Murakami logo QR code for LV